Manufacturing Diagnostic Suite

Executive Summary

Our customer is a leading solution provider to media industry.

They had a proprietary hardware board which took both the compressed and raw video/audio inputs and output the content in an RF modulated spectrum in one of the numerous worldwide modulation standards; i.e. ATSC, DVB-T/H, NTSC, ISDB-Tb, etc. Now they wanted to have manufacturing diagnostics suite for their reference platform so they approached eInfochips.
eInfochips was associated with the customer to design and develop the manufacturing diagnostics suite for their reference platform. With our solution, the customer got a better yield for the manufactured boards and the process of identifying the defective pieces along with the defect in-field became a lot easier and they could cut down their cost over 30%.
The test-suite and framework we developed can be easily extended for their new product line.

The Customer

Our customer provides products, systems and services that deliver interoperable workflow solutions that span the entire broadcast delivery chain for the global media market.

Their solutions are well known for advanced technology and effectiveness. They contacted eInfochips to enhance their processing system by developing the diagnostic suite.

The Challenge

  • Team eInfochips had to execute the project in short span of time as time to market was critical for the customer
  • We had to make the solutions in such a way that test-suite and framework can be extended for their new product line.

The Solution

Design & Development

The Built in Test (BIT) Application we built is an internal diagnostic application that performs the production testing and in-field testing. It tests the interface and functional paths for the board and identifies the issues in operating board if there are any.

  • eInfochips has carried out the feasibility study to understand the requirements and design the solution in such a way that it can be extended for future products also.
  • We defined the scope of requirements for tests to be covered and enabled the customer to decide the project time line and also scope of work.
  • We carried out design and development of manufacturing diagnostics test suite. With this design and development we have addressed the requirements to support the future release also.
  • For the enhancement of the system we have designed and developed UI for manufacturing diagnostic suite and made the operations easy for board development.
  • As we had to design solution such a way that it supports the entire product line of the customer we have designed and developed Firmware. Now, with this firmware the customer can use this solution frequently and repeatedly in their future releases.
  • To make the solution ready to use we have integrated the solution with the application so that customer can use the application directly.

Testing

Team eInfochips has carried out various tests in operating environment so that the customer gets bug free solution and can use it directly without any test.

The Benefit

  • With our smooth coordination and expertise we enabled customer to reduce their team size to almost half.
  • With On Time Every Time approach we enabled customer to accomplish the project on time and saved their time cost over 35%.
  • Our solution has enhanced the customer’s core functionality and made their operations 25% faster to develop boards.
  • The solution we provided can be easily extended for future product line which helps customer to reduce their project cost over 25%.